Charito Solis
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Charito Solis was a FAMAS and Gawad Urian
award-winning Filipino
film actress. Acknowledged as one of the leading dramatic actresses of post-war Philippine cinema
, she was tagged either as the "Anna Magnani
of the Philippines" or as "the Meryl Streep
of the Philippines."
, the head of LVN Pictures
, who cast her to star in her initial movie Niña Bonita, an adaptation of Frank Capra's
It Happened One Night
. The film was a success, and marked the beginning for Solis of a 43-year career in film that lasted until her death. Solis died on January 9, 1998 in Calamba City
following a cardiac arrest.
El Filibusterismo
, directed by Gerardo de Leon
. She was frequently called upon by the country's leading directors to act in their films. Among her many films she also appeared in Eddie Romero's
Manila, Open City (1967), Araw-Araw, Gabi-Gabi (1975) and Agila (1980); in Mike de Leon's
Kisapmata
(1981) and Batch 81 (1982); in Ishmael Bernal's
City After Dark
(1980) and Hinugot sa Langit
(1985); in Lino Brocka's
Init (1979) and Ina, Kapatid, Anak (1979); and as the narrator in Marilou Diaz-Abaya's
Karnal (1982). Other notable performances of Solis were featured in Angustia (1963), Tatlong Mukha Ni Pandora (1963) and Magda Sales (1964).
From 1967 to 1971, Solis was under contract in Nepomuceno Productions. Her films for that outfit were Dahil Sa Isang Bulaklak
, Ang Langit Sa Lupa, Luha Sa Karimlan, Manila Open City, Igorota, Ang Pulubi, Pipo and The Hunted. Considered by many Filipino film historians as her golden age, her association with Nepomuceno Productions elevated her to the status of the Philippines' premiere actress. Her performance in Dahil sa... earned her the Best Actress award from the Asian Film Festival. Thereafter tagged in her movies as "Asia's Best Actress" or any of its variants, she went on to appear in risque films as well as commercial successes. Her performance is also significant in Filipino film history because she is the first actress to ever go nude in a scene, albeit filmed in silhouette, for a film that was also the first Filipino film made in full color (Eastman color). Dahil sa... also brought a bonus to Charito Solis: with the film being the country's entry to the Best Foreign Film category at the Academy Awards (the film did not make it to the semi-finals), she and Luis Nepomuceno, the film's producer, were given tickets to see the 40th Academy Awards, the first Filipinos to ever do so. Following in their golden footsteps were Lea Salonga in 1993 (singer of one of the nominated songs), Pia Clemente in 2006 (the first Filipina Oscar nominee) and Charo Santos in 2009 (actress and TV executive, invited because her network, ABS-CBN, was the official Oscars carrier in the Philippines).
After her association with Nepomuceno Productions ended, she would appear in several more films such as in Hindi Kami Damong Ligaw, Ms. Teresa Abad Ako Si Bing, Hugasan Mo Ang Aking Kasalanan, Babae Sa Likod Ng Salamin, Beerhouse, Babae Huwag Kang Tukso, Babae Ngayon At Kailanman, Walang Katapusang Tag-araw, Mga Tinik Ng Babae, Iwasan Kabaret, Hubad Sa Mundo, Mga Huwad Na Mananayaw, Init, Alaga and Playgirl.
Solis became the first Filipino actress to play the lead role in an internationally-released Japanese movie, which she did in 1961 when she starred alongside Kojiro Hongo in Kenji Misumi's
Shaka, a film biography on the life of Buddha
. She appeared another Japanese film "The Princess and I" also produced by Daiei Japan which had its Philippine Premiere in Lyric Theater on Escolta on October 10, 1962. She also starred in another international production, alongside Tetchie Agbayani
and John Saxon
in Eddie Romero's Desire
(1982).
, won her Best Actress award at the 1967 Asian Film Festival. She again starred for Santiago the following year in Igorota, where she became the first Filipina actress to bare her breasts on film. Her role in Igorota won her the 1968 FAMAS Best Actress Award, one of 5 she would win during her career. Her other four FAMAS Best Actress wins came in 1959 for Kundiman ng Lahi; in 1960 for Emily; in 1963 for Angustia; and in 1983 for Don't Cry for Me, Papa. After her fifth win, in 1984, she became the first actress to be inducted into the FAMAS Hall of Fame. Solis likewise won the Gawad Urian Best Actress award in 1979 for Ina, Kapatid, Anak, and for Best Supporting Actress for in 1981 and 1982 for Kisapmata and Karnal.
In the first-ever Metro Manila Film Festival
held in 1975, Solis won the Best Actress Award for Araw Araw, Gabi Gabi.
entitled The Charito Solis Show (1966 to 1968). In 1973, Solis also had a TV weekly drama show named Obra Maestra on RPN
.
In the late 1980s, Solis won the chance to showcase her comedic skills, as well as to gain a younger set of fans, when she was cast opposite Vic Sotto, Alice Dixson
and Aiza Seguerra
in the sitcom Okey Ka Fairy Ko!
. She played the imperious Ina Magenta, Enteng Kabisote's mother-in-law, a character which was loosely modeled after Agnes Moorehead's
Endora on Bewitched
. The popular show lasted 9 years and spawned several film adaptations that continued even well after Solis' death. Giselle Tongi took over the roll of Ina Magenta in the Enteng Kabisote movie franchises which she also grew up watching the show and idolized Charito Solis.
Gawad Urian Awards
The Gawad Urian Awards are annual film awards in the Philippines held since 1977. It is given by the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino and is currently regarded as the counterpart of the United States' New York Film Critics Circle....
award-winning Filipino
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
film actress. Acknowledged as one of the leading dramatic actresses of post-war Philippine cinema
Cinema of the Philippines
Cinema of the Philippines started with the introduction of the first moving pictures to the country on January 1, 1897 at the Salón de Pertierra in Manila. The following year, local scenes were shot on film for the first time by a Spaniard, Antonio Ramos, using the Lumiere Cinematograph...
, she was tagged either as the "Anna Magnani
Anna Magnani
Anna Magnani was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo....
of the Philippines" or as "the Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television and film.Streep made her professional stage debut in 1971's The Playboy of Seville, before her screen debut in the television movie The Deadliest Season in 1977. In that same year, she made her film debut with...
of the Philippines."
Profile
Rosario Violeta "Charito" Solís Hernández was born in Manila. At age 19, she was introduced by her uncle, the film director F. H. Constantino to Doña Narcisa de LeonNarcisa de Leon
Narcisa Buencamino Vd.ª De de Leon was a Filipino film producer. Clad daily in the frugal rural dress of the camisón, saya and chinelas, Doña Sisang, as she was widely known, was already a 61-year old widow when she entered the film industry...
, the head of LVN Pictures
LVN Pictures
LVN Pictures, Inc. is one of the biggest film studios in the history of Philippine cinema and its foremost establishment in motion picture post-production until 2005...
, who cast her to star in her initial movie Niña Bonita, an adaptation of Frank Capra's
Frank Capra
Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...
It Happened One Night
It Happened One Night
It Happened One Night is a 1934 American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter . The plot was based on the story Night Bus by Samuel...
. The film was a success, and marked the beginning for Solis of a 43-year career in film that lasted until her death. Solis died on January 9, 1998 in Calamba City
Calamba City
Calamba City is a first class component city located in the province of Laguna, Philippines. Situated only 54 kilometers south of Manila, about an hour by chartered bus, Calamba City is a popular tourist destination with its hot spring resorts, most of the resorts are located in Barangay Pansol...
following a cardiac arrest.
Film career
Solis would star in well over 100 films starting with LVN Pictures' classics such as Niña Bonita (1955), Charito, I Love You! (1956), Walang Sugat (1957), Malvarosa (1958), Kundiman Ng Lahi (1959) and Emily (1960). Solis was featured in several of the best-known and critically acclaimed movies of Philippine cinema. She played the female lead in the 1962 film adaptation of Jose Rizal'sJosé Rizal
José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda , was a Filipino polymath, patriot and the most prominent advocate for reform in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He is regarded as the foremost Filipino patriot and is listed as one of the national heroes of the Philippines by...
El Filibusterismo
El filibusterismo
El filibusterismo , also known by its English alternate title The Reign of Greed, is the second novel written by Philippine national hero José Rizal. It is the sequel to Noli Me Tangere and like the first book, was written in Spanish. It was first published in 1891 in Ghent, Belgium...
, directed by Gerardo de Leon
Gerardo de León
Gerardo de León was a Filipino actor turned film director, who made his acting debut in the 1934 film Ang Dangal....
. She was frequently called upon by the country's leading directors to act in their films. Among her many films she also appeared in Eddie Romero's
Eddie Romero
Eddie Romero is an acclaimed and influential Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter, considered one of the finest in the Cinema of the Philippines.Romero was named National Artist of the Philippines in 2003....
Manila, Open City (1967), Araw-Araw, Gabi-Gabi (1975) and Agila (1980); in Mike de Leon's
Mike de Leon
Miguel Pamintuan de Leon is a noted Filipino film director, cinematographer, scripwriter and film producer. His is also known as Mike de Leon. He was born in Manila on May 24, 1947 to Manuel de Leon and Imelda Pamintuan...
Kisapmata
Kisapmata
Kisapmata is a 1981 drama film directed by Mike de Leon, written by de Leon and Clodualdo del Mundo Jr., and based on Nick Joaquin's 1968 article entitled "The House on Zapote Street"....
(1981) and Batch 81 (1982); in Ishmael Bernal's
Ishmael Bernal
Ishmael Bernal was an acclaimed Filipino film, stage and television director. He was also an actor and screenwriter...
City After Dark
Manila By Night
Manila By Night also known as City After Dark is a 1980 Filipino Gawad Urian Award winning drama film directed by critically acclaimed director Ishmael Bernal and starred Gina Alajar and Charito Solis.-Cast:*Gina Alajar*Charmie Benavidez...
(1980) and Hinugot sa Langit
Hinugot sa Langit
Hinugot sa Langit is a 1985 Gawad Urian Award winning Filipino melodramatic film directed by Ishmael Bernal based on moral values. It is considered a classic in Filipino cinema and picked up four Gawad Urian Awards...
(1985); in Lino Brocka's
Lino Brocka
Catalino Ortiz Brocka is known as one of the greatest film directors of the Philippines. Brocka was openly homosexual and many of his films incorporated LGBT themes into their often dramatic storylines....
Init (1979) and Ina, Kapatid, Anak (1979); and as the narrator in Marilou Diaz-Abaya's
Marilou Diaz-Abaya
Marilou Diaz-Abaya is a multi-awarded film director in the Philippines.She is the founder and current president of the Marilou Diaz Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center, a film school based in Antipolo City, Philippines....
Karnal (1982). Other notable performances of Solis were featured in Angustia (1963), Tatlong Mukha Ni Pandora (1963) and Magda Sales (1964).
From 1967 to 1971, Solis was under contract in Nepomuceno Productions. Her films for that outfit were Dahil Sa Isang Bulaklak
Because of a Flower
Because of a Flower is a 1967 Philippine drama film directed by Luis Nepomuceno. The film was selected as the Philippine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 40th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee...
, Ang Langit Sa Lupa, Luha Sa Karimlan, Manila Open City, Igorota, Ang Pulubi, Pipo and The Hunted. Considered by many Filipino film historians as her golden age, her association with Nepomuceno Productions elevated her to the status of the Philippines' premiere actress. Her performance in Dahil sa... earned her the Best Actress award from the Asian Film Festival. Thereafter tagged in her movies as "Asia's Best Actress" or any of its variants, she went on to appear in risque films as well as commercial successes. Her performance is also significant in Filipino film history because she is the first actress to ever go nude in a scene, albeit filmed in silhouette, for a film that was also the first Filipino film made in full color (Eastman color). Dahil sa... also brought a bonus to Charito Solis: with the film being the country's entry to the Best Foreign Film category at the Academy Awards (the film did not make it to the semi-finals), she and Luis Nepomuceno, the film's producer, were given tickets to see the 40th Academy Awards, the first Filipinos to ever do so. Following in their golden footsteps were Lea Salonga in 1993 (singer of one of the nominated songs), Pia Clemente in 2006 (the first Filipina Oscar nominee) and Charo Santos in 2009 (actress and TV executive, invited because her network, ABS-CBN, was the official Oscars carrier in the Philippines).
After her association with Nepomuceno Productions ended, she would appear in several more films such as in Hindi Kami Damong Ligaw, Ms. Teresa Abad Ako Si Bing, Hugasan Mo Ang Aking Kasalanan, Babae Sa Likod Ng Salamin, Beerhouse, Babae Huwag Kang Tukso, Babae Ngayon At Kailanman, Walang Katapusang Tag-araw, Mga Tinik Ng Babae, Iwasan Kabaret, Hubad Sa Mundo, Mga Huwad Na Mananayaw, Init, Alaga and Playgirl.
Solis became the first Filipino actress to play the lead role in an internationally-released Japanese movie, which she did in 1961 when she starred alongside Kojiro Hongo in Kenji Misumi's
Kenji Misumi
was a notable Japanese film director. He created films such as Lone Wolf and Cub and the initial film in the long-running Zatoichi series.He died at age 53.-Filmography:...
Shaka, a film biography on the life of Buddha
Gautama Buddha
Siddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher from the Indian subcontinent, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. In most Buddhist traditions, he is regarded as the Supreme Buddha Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit: सिद्धार्थ गौतम; Pali: Siddhattha Gotama) was a spiritual teacher from the Indian...
. She appeared another Japanese film "The Princess and I" also produced by Daiei Japan which had its Philippine Premiere in Lyric Theater on Escolta on October 10, 1962. She also starred in another international production, alongside Tetchie Agbayani
Tetchie Agbayani
Visitacion Parado, who is better known by her screen name Tetchie Agbayani, is a Filipina movie and television actress, Mutya ng Pilipinas, psychology instructor and Playboy model. She appeared in a regular issue of German Playboy and a special American edition entitled "Women of the World"...
and John Saxon
John Saxon (actor)
John Saxon is an American actor who has worked on over 200 projects during the span of sixty years. Saxon is most known for his work in horror films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street and Black Christmas, both of which feature Saxon as a policeman in search of the killer...
in Eddie Romero's Desire
Desire (1982 film)
Desire is a 1982 Filipino- American film directed by Eddie Romero and starred John Saxon , Judith Chapman and Tetchie Agbayani.-Cast:*Tetchie Agbayani as Bessie*Butz Aquino*Manny Castañeda*Judith Chapman as Julie Seaver*Ken Metcalfe as Phil Seaver...
(1982).
Awards
Her performance in 1967's Dahil sa Isang Bulaklak, directed by Cirio H. SantiagoCirio H. Santiago
Cirio H. Santiago was a prolific Filipino film producer, director, writer and cinematographer. He also uses the screen names: Cirio Santiago and Leonard Hermes.-Life and career:...
, won her Best Actress award at the 1967 Asian Film Festival. She again starred for Santiago the following year in Igorota, where she became the first Filipina actress to bare her breasts on film. Her role in Igorota won her the 1968 FAMAS Best Actress Award, one of 5 she would win during her career. Her other four FAMAS Best Actress wins came in 1959 for Kundiman ng Lahi; in 1960 for Emily; in 1963 for Angustia; and in 1983 for Don't Cry for Me, Papa. After her fifth win, in 1984, she became the first actress to be inducted into the FAMAS Hall of Fame. Solis likewise won the Gawad Urian Best Actress award in 1979 for Ina, Kapatid, Anak, and for Best Supporting Actress for in 1981 and 1982 for Kisapmata and Karnal.
In the first-ever Metro Manila Film Festival
Metro Manila Film Festival
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held in 1975, Solis won the Best Actress Award for Araw Araw, Gabi Gabi.
Television career
From 1966 to 1968, Solis had a weekly TV show on ABS-CBNABS-CBN
ABS–CBN Corporation is a Philippine-based media conglomerate. It is the Philippines' largest media and entertainment conglomerate. The corporation was the merger of Alto Broadcasting System which at that time owned by James Lindenberg and Antonio Quirino, and the Chronicle Broadcasting Network ...
entitled The Charito Solis Show (1966 to 1968). In 1973, Solis also had a TV weekly drama show named Obra Maestra on RPN
Radio Philippines Network
Radio Philippines Network, Inc. is a broadcast television network in the Philippines co-owned by the Government Communications Group, Solar Entertainment Corporation, Far East Managers and Investors Inc., and private sectors. This station studios are located at Broadcast City, Old Balara, Capitol...
.
In the late 1980s, Solis won the chance to showcase her comedic skills, as well as to gain a younger set of fans, when she was cast opposite Vic Sotto, Alice Dixson
Alice Dixson
Jessie Alice Dixson or Alice Dixson, often misspelled Alice Dixon , is a Filipino-American actress, commercial model, and former beauty queen...
and Aiza Seguerra
Aiza Seguerra
Cariza Yamson Seguerra better known as Aiza Seguerra is a Filipino actress, singer-songwriter and guitarist. She traces her roots from Calauag, Quezon....
in the sitcom Okey Ka Fairy Ko!
Okey Ka Fairy Ko!
Okay ka, fairy ko! is a Filipino television comedy that premiered in 1987. This wasVic Sotto's first self-produced sitcom, which was followed later by 1 For 3.-Movie franchise:It also had released six spin-off movies to date....
. She played the imperious Ina Magenta, Enteng Kabisote's mother-in-law, a character which was loosely modeled after Agnes Moorehead's
Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences...
Endora on Bewitched
Bewitched
Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York and Dick Sargent , Agnes Moorehead, and David White. The show is about a witch who marries a mortal and tries to lead the life of a typical suburban...
. The popular show lasted 9 years and spawned several film adaptations that continued even well after Solis' death. Giselle Tongi took over the roll of Ina Magenta in the Enteng Kabisote movie franchises which she also grew up watching the show and idolized Charito Solis.
Films
- 1955 - Niña Bonita (LVN)
- 1955 - Dinayang Pagmamahal (LVN)
- 1956 - Charito, I Love You (LVN)
- 1956 - Ulilang birhen (LVN)
- 1957 - Tiririt Ng Ibon (LVN)
- 1957 - Walang Sugat (LVN)
- 1957 - Sampung Libong Pisong Pag-Ibig (LVN)
- 1957 - Krisalis (LVN)
- 1958 - Rose Tattoo (LVN)
- 1958 - Malvarosa (LVN)
- 1959 - Limang Dalangin (LVN)
- 1959 - Kundiman Ng Lahi (LVN) (1st FAMAS Best Actress Award)
- 1960 - Black Beauty (LVN)
- 1960 - Emily (LVN) (2nd FAMAS Best Actress Award)
- 1961 - Sandata At Pangako (LVN)
- 1961 - Shaka (Buddha) (Daiei Corporation Japanese Production)
- 1961 - The Place: Pasong Diablo (Poe-Zshornack Prods)
- 1961 - Lahing Texas (Hollywood-Far East Prods)
- 1961 - Rancho Bravo (TIIP)
- 1961 - Umaapoy Na Bakal Hollywood-Far East Prods)
- 1962 - Jikiri (Dalisay Prods)
- 1962 - The Princess and I (Daiei Corporation Japanese Production)
- 1962 - El Filibusterismo (Arriva Prods)
- 1962 - Mahal Kita Inay (Larry Santiago Prods)
- 1963 - Angustia (3rd FAMAS Best Actress Award)
- 1963 - Ang Bukas Ay Akin
- 1963 - Isinusumpa Ko! (Zultana Int'l)
- 1963 - 3 Mukha Ni Pandora (Zultana Int'l)
- 1964 - Magda Sales (Kislap-Tagalog Pictures)
- 1964 - Nagbabagang Paraiso (Golden Harvest Promotions)
- 1966 - Claudia (Lea Prods)
- 1966 - Kapag Langit Ang Umusig (Sampaguita Pictures)
- 1966 - Boomerang (TIIP)
- 1966 - Ang Tao Ay Makasalanan (VP Pictures)
- 1966 - Mga Pagibig Ni Christine (VP Pictures)
- 1967 - Malupit Ang Pagibig (Sampaguita Pictures)
- 1967 - Ito Ang Aking Kasaysayan (VP Pictures)
- 1967 - Dahil Sa Isang Bulaklak (Nepomuceno Prods) (Asian Film Festival Best Actress Award)
- 1967 - Sino Ang Dapat Sisihin? (VP Pictures)
- 1967 - Ang Langit Sa Lupa (Nepomuceno Prods)
- 1968 - Luha sa Karimlan (Nepomuceno Prods)
- 1968 - Manila: Open City (Nepomuceno Prods)
- 1968 - Igorota (Nepomuceno Prods) (4th FAMAS Best Actress Award)
- 1969 - Ang Pulubi (Nepomuceno Prods)
- 1970 - Pipo (A Time For Dying) (Nepomuceno Prods)
- 1970 - The Hunted (Nepomuceno Prods)
- 1973 - Ang Bukas Ay Atin (C.C. Film Prods)
- 1974 - Mga Tigre Sa Sierra Cruz (Lea Prods)
- 1975 - Araw Araw, Gabi Gabi (Lyra Film Ventures) (1st Metro Manila Film Festival Best Actress)
- 1976 - Mrs. Teresa Abad, Ako Po Si Bing
- 1976 - Hindi Kami Damong Ligaw (Lyra Film Ventures)
- 1976 - Hugasan Mo Ang Aking Kasalanan (Emperor Films)
- 1976 - Babae, Sa Likod Ng Salamin (Reuben Canoy Prods)
- 1976 - Mga Uhaw Na Bulaklak Part II (Lyra Fim Ventures) (Cameo Role)
- 1977 - Bianong Bulag (Imus Prods)
- 1977 - Beerhouse (Regal Films)
- 1977 - Babae, Huwag Kang Tukso (AM Prods)
- 1977 - Tundo: Isla Puting Bato (Lea Prods)
- 1977 - Lalaki, Ikaw Ang Dahilan
- 1977 - Walang Katapusang Tag-Araw (Lea Prods)
- 1977 - Babae... Ngayon At Kailanman
- 1978 - Iwasan: Kabaret (Regal Films)
- 1978 - Mga Tinik Ng Babae (Agrix Films)
- 1978 - Mga Huwad Na Mananayaw (Agrix Films)
- 1978 - Hubad Sa Mundo (R.H. Films)
- 1979 - Init (Showbiz Films)
- 1979 - Ina, Kapatid, Anak (Regal Films)
- 1979 - Gabun (Agrix Films)
- 1979 - Modelong Tanso
- 1979 - Dakpin Si Junior Bombay (S.Q. Films)
- 1980 - Tatlong Patak ng Dugo ni Adan
- 1980 - Manila By Night (City After Dark) (Regal Films)
- 1980 - Wanted: Wives
- 1980 - Alaga (B.A.C.-Christian Espiritu)
- 1980 - Ito Ang Babae (TIIP)
- 1980 - Aguila
- 1981 - Ulo ng Gapo
- 1981 - Playgirl (Regal Films)
- 1981 - Kisapmata
- 1982 - Where Love Has Gone
- 1982 - Mother Dear
- 1982 - Desire
- 1982 - Cross My Heart
- 1982 - Alpha Kappa Omega Batch '81
- 1983 - Pieta
- 1983 - Don't Cry for Me, Papa (5th FAMAS Best Actress Award)
- 1983 - Minsan May Isang Ina
- 1983 - Karnal
- 1984 - Sinner or Saint
- 1984 - Pieta, Ikalawang Aklat
- 1984 - Dear Mama
- 1984 - Naked Island (Butil-Ulan)
- 1984 - Mahilig
- 1984 - Teenage Marriage
- 1984 - Kaya Kong Abutin Ang Langit
- 1984 - Shake, Rattle & Roll
- 1985 - Pati Ba Pintig ng Puso
- 1985 - Bomba Arrienda
- 1985 - Kay Dali ng Kahapon, Ang Bagal ng Bukas
- 1985 - Naked Paradise (Ultra Vision Films)
- 1985 - Inday Bote
- 1985 - Hinugot sa Langit
- 1985 - God Saves Me
- 1985 - Sensual
- 1986 - The Sisters
- 1986 - Home Sweet Home
- 1986 - Angelito San Miguel: Ang Batang City Jail
- 1987 - Isang Dakot na Kaligayahan
- 1987 - Bala Ko Ang Hahatol
- 1988 - Lorenzo Ruiz the Saint
- 1988 - Lord, Bakit Ako Pa?
- 1988 - Baleleng at ang Ginto Sirena
- 1988 - Hiwaga sa Balete Drive
- 1988 - Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
- 1989 - Killer vs. Ninjas
- 1989 - Tatlong Mukha ng Pag-Ibig
- 1989 - Bakit Iisa Lamang Ang Puso
- 1989 - Mahirap Ang Magmahal
- 1989 - Ipaglalaban Ko
- 1989 - Jessa: Blusang Itim 2
- 1990 - Sagot ng Puso
- 1990 - Huminga Ka Na Hangga't Gusto Mo
- 1990 - Bakit Kay Tagal ng Sandali?
- 1991 - Kislap Sa Dilim
- 1991 - Joey Boy Munti, 15 Anyos Ka Sa Muntilupa
- 1991 - Kahit May Mahal Ka Ng Iba
- 1991 - Bingbong: The Vincent Crisologo Story
- 1991 - Okey ka, fairy ko!
- 1991 - Una Kang Naging AkinUna Kang Naging Akin"Una Kang Naging Akin" or When You Were Mine is a Philippine drama on GMA Network. This is the tenth instalment of Sine Novela. The original movie was released in 1991. The series stars Angelika dela Cruz, Wendell Ramos, and Maxene Magalona...
- 1992 - Miss na Miss Kita: Ang Utol Kong Hoodlum 2
- 1992 - Ikaw Pa Lang Ang Minahal
- 1992 - Daddy Goon
- 1992 - Alyas Pogi 2
- 1992 - Okey ka, fairy ko! II
- 1993 - Paranaque Bank Robbery: The Joselito Joseco Story
- 1993 - Zaldong Tisoy
- 1993 - Dahil Mahal Kita: The Dolzura Cortez Story
- 1994 - Megamol
- 1994 - Kadenang Bulaklak
- 1994 - Lab Kita, Bilib Ka Ba?
- 1994 - Saan Ka Man Naroroon
- 1995 - Sana Dalawa Ang Puso Ko
- 1995 - The Flor Contemplacion Story
- 1995 - Huwag Mong Buhayin Ang Bangkay
- 1996 - Itataya Ko ang Buhay Ko
- 1996 - Enteng and the Shaolin Kid
- 1996 - Ayoko Na Sanang Magmahal
- 1997 - Masarap, Masakit Ang Magmahal
- 1997 - Ipaglaban Mo: The Movie Part 2
- 1998 - Bayad Puri
- 1998 - Ikaw Pa Rin Ang Iibigin
Television series
- Okey Ka Fairy Ko!Okey Ka Fairy Ko!Okay ka, fairy ko! is a Filipino television comedy that premiered in 1987. This wasVic Sotto's first self-produced sitcom, which was followed later by 1 For 3.-Movie franchise:It also had released six spin-off movies to date....
[IBC (1987–1989); ABS-CBN (1989–1995); GMA 7 (1995–1997)] - GMA Telecine Specials [GMA] (1993)
- Tierra SangreTierra SangreTierra Sangre was a former soap opera aired in the Philippines produced by VIVA Television. It stars Jennifer Sevilla, Bobby Andrews and the late Ms...
[RPN (1996)] - Mula Sa PusoMula Sa PusoMula Sa Puso is a Filipino television series originally aired by ABS-CBN from March 10, 1997 to April 2, 1999. Claudine Barretto, Rico Yan, and Diether Ocampo played the role of the main protagonists in the series. It was re-aired in 2008 through Studio 23 and Kapamilya Channel, which are both an...
[ABS-CBN] (1997–1998) - Lovingly Yours, HelenLovingly Yours, HelenLovingly Yours, Helen is a Sunday afternoon program aired on GMA-7 from 1980 to 1996."Lovingly Yours, Helen" evolved into a television drama anthology from a daily counseling program on radio with the same title, originally aired on GMA's AM station DZBB. It was presented by the late...
[GMA] (1990–1996)